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What is Bottlenecking?

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Name: tyme1012
Date: April 11, 2008 at 12:32:08 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: e6550
Product: Personal Bulid
Comment:

What is it exactly? and I'm referring to CPU bottlenecking.



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Name: NAN
Date: April 11, 2008 at 12:59:48 Pacific
Reply:

It happens when a underpowered CPU can't process all data feed to it by other components like hard drive, RAM, graphic card.


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Name: jackbomb
Date: April 11, 2008 at 13:13:42 Pacific
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Pair a 66MHz 486 with an 8800GTS, and you'll have a big fat Greek CPU bottleneck.

Because a 486 won't send information to the video card fast enough, gaming performance would...suck.

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Response Number 3
Name: cliffpage
Date: April 12, 2008 at 04:48:46 Pacific
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likewise if you had a pentium 4 3ghz HT CPU and an old TNT2 16mb graphics card, then the graphics card would be the 'bottle neck' because it could not cope with all the info being fed at high speed from the cpu.
Or if you had a good cpu and good graphics card but very little ram then the ram would be the 'bottleneck'.
A system can only perform as good as the weakest part will let it perform. The weakest part is the bottleneck.


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Response Number 4
Name: armani2468
Date: April 13, 2008 at 18:07:42 Pacific
Reply:

Well Said ! cliffpage couldn't have said it better


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